2026 Shortlist

Shortlist:

  • Colchester City Council and Brighton & Hove City Council - Beyond the Uniform – Driving Behaviour Change Through Strategic Communications
  • Ealing LBC - Ealing Council's, "This is our home, not a tip" fly-tipping campaign
  • Greater Manchester CA - #IsThisOk?
  • Lambeth LBC - Do It London: A City-Wide Call to End HIV Transmissions
  • Sandwell Council - You Ok, Mate? Men’s Mental Health Campaign
  • Somerset Council - 'Our Story' - 2025 Fostering Campaign
  • Staffordshire CC - Little Heroes
  • West Sussex CC - Call The Shots on Alcohol

Shortlist:

  • Barnet LBC - Embedding inclusion in our DNA
  • Buckinghamshire Council - Residential Transformation Programme – Strong Foundations
  • Cheshire West and Chester Council - Intervention Hub
  • Islington LBC - Transforming Lives Through Outstanding Children’s Services
  • Kensington & Chelsea RBC - Bi-Borough Children's Services SEND Services
  • Newham LBC - Delivering outstanding outcomes - supporting children on the edge of care
  • North East Lincolnshire Council - Our Children, Our Future
  • Southampton City Council - Reducing the Number of Children in Custody in Southampton
  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council - Education Re-engagement Team: Direct Work to reduce Permanent Exclusion
  • Walsall MBC - Walsall Right 4 Children

Shortlist:

  • Barnsley MBC - Love Where You Live
  • Bristol City Council - 'One City, Many Communities' Strategic Approach to Community Cohesion
  • Calderdale MBC - North Halifax Strategy: A Community-Led Vision for the Future
  • Clackmannanshire Council - Family Wellbeing Partnership
  • Kingston upon Thames RBC - From Lived Experience to Lasting Change: Co-Producing Kingston's VAWG Strategy
  • Southend-on-Sea City Council - The Situation Room: How time travel increased trust in the council
  • Newcastle City Council - Empowering People in Communities
  • Plymouth City Council - Making the invisible visible: Mobilising community assets to address the social determinants of health and shape the city we want together
  • Slough BC - Safer Langley - Clear Hold Build In Slough
  • Surrey CC - Redesigning Community Involvement in Surrey: A Whole-System, Place-Based Model for Empowered Communities
  • Westminster City Council - Rampayne Street and Lilestone Street Community Hubs Co-design Process
  • Wirral Council - Empowering Community Voices: Embedding qualitative insights in decision making across Wirral

Shortlist:

  • Burnley BC
  • Cardiff Council
  • North Yorkshire Council
  • Northumberland CC
  • Sutton LBC

Shortlist:

  • Birmingham City Council - Digital Foundry
  • Cardiff Council - Single View of the Child: Transforming Safeguarding Through Data Sharing
  • Derby City Council - Driving AI transformation in local government
  • Ealing LBC - CHC+ restoring trust and reducing pressure in Continuing Healthcare in Ealing
  • Lancashire County Council - Empowering People, Enhancing Services: Lancashire’s AI Enablement Journey
  • North Somerset Council - 90% success rate using AI to complete ECHP forms in children's services
  • Tameside MBC and Petal & Co. - Using digital technology to compassionately transform collections
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Housing Development Tracker
  • Wigan MBC - Ethical Use of AI In Local Government

Shortlist:

  • Barnsley MBC, Hounslow LBC, Oxfordshire CC, Plymouth City Council and South Gloucestershire Council with ADEPT - Find Your Path: Inspiring a new generation into local government roles
  • Birmingham City Council - Quality Champions Team and Autism and ADHD Partnership Board
  • Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region with Capital City Partnership - Housing, Construction and Infrastructure (HCI) Skills Gateway
  • Enfield LBC - Enfield's Journey How we have created opportunities for our Gypsy Roma Traveller Residents
  • London Boroughs' Women's Network - A Volunteer-Led Movement Transforming Women’s Leadership Across London
  • Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC - Gateway to Employment Supported Internship Programme
  • Sheffield City Council - Diverse Business Advisory Board
  • Shropshire Council - Shropshire Council Anti-Racism Forum
  • Somerset Council - Imagine the Possibilities… Transforming Futures for Young People with SEND
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Community Toilet Scheme

Shortlist:

  • Bassetlaw DC - Vacancy to Vitality: Transforming Our Town Centres
  • Bradford City MDC - Darley Street market
  • Colchester City Council - Driving economic impact through creating place based value propositions - building destination
  • Glasgow City Council - Glasgow City Region Programme Management Office
  • Hackney LBC - From Regulation to Resilience: How Hackney Built London’s Fastest-Growing Local Economy
  • North Kesteven DC - Unlocking Sleaford’s transformational economic potential
  • Swindon BC - Swindon’s Strategic Reindustrialisation: Forging a National Defence Tech Cluster
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Tower Hamlets Markets
  • Watford BC - A connected town centre shaped for long-term success
  • Westminster City Council - Cumulative Impact Assessment - Enriching Westminster's Night Time Economy
  • Westminster City Council - Meanwhile On

Shortlist:

  • Barnet LBC - Friary Park natural flood management scheme
  • Bracknell Forest Council, Reading BC, Wokingham Borough BC and FCC Environment with re3 Waste Partnership - re3read: Book Reuse Initiative
  • Bradford City MDC - The Bradford Clean Air Zone (CAZ)
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Decarbonising Streetlighting – Transforming Streetlighting for s Sustainable Future
  • Enfield LBC - Londons largest rewilding project - Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery Scheme
  • Norfolk Environmental Credits - Transforming how Councils deliver sustainable growth
  • North Somerset Council - Becoming the first local authority in England to introduce a district-wide kerbside collection of soft plastics.
  • Northumberland CC - Reduction In Fly tipping Campaign
  • Peterborough City Council - School Uniform Re-Use Project

Shortlist:

  • Cheshire East Council - Transforming Care Through Innovation - Cheshire East Council’s Occupational Therapy Team and the Proportionate Care Project
  • Ealing LBC - CHC+ restoring trust and reducing pressure in Continuing Healthcare in Ealing
  • Greenwich RBC - Digital Health and Care Technology Service
  • Hertfordshire CC - Connect and Prevent Transformation Programme
  • Hull City Council - All With Us, a housing-led approach to care and community
  • Newcastle City Council - Warm Homes Healthy Futures in Newcastle
  • Pembrokeshire CC - Strengths Based Collaborative Communication Programme
  • Rochdale BC with Channel 3 Consulting - Empowering People, Changing Lives: Delivering a Preventative, Digitally Enabled Model of Adult Social Care
  • Sheffield City Council with The Access Group - System Leadership Role and Engagement with Integrated Care System
  • Southwark LBC - Intermediate Care Southwark (ICS)

Shortlist:

  • Birmingham City Council - Transforming Temporary Accommodation: Housing Acquisition Programme
  • Bradford City MDC - HOP team work on permanence
  • Camden LBC - Purpose built high quality temporary accommodation
  • Colchester City Council - Reducing Bed & Breakfast Use for Homeless Families
  • Hull City Council - All With Us, a housing-led approach to care and community
  • Kings Lynn & West Norfolk BC - Intervening in the housing market
  • North Kesteven DC and Lafford Homes - Local Leadership Delivering Choice, Quality and Sustainable Homes for Lincolnshire
  • North Somerset Council - Elm Grove: mainstreaming quality, sustainability and affordable housing through a commercial delivery partner
  • Reading BC - Local Authority New Build Program
  • Swindon BC - Salzgitter Court
  • Telford & Wrekin Council - Transforming empty properties
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Cladding Remediation Programme

Shortlist:

  • Barking & Dagenham LBC with Rethink Partners - Working with the care market: England’s Largest Evaluation of the Impact of TEC & Homecare
  • Bristol City Council - LED & Central Management Scheme
  • Derby City Council - Leading the AI revolution in local government
  • Ealing LBC - CHC+ restoring trust and reducing pressure in Continuing Healthcare
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Decarbonising Streetlighting
  • Enfield LBC - “From Refer and Wait to Embedded Support: ECASS Redefining Speech, Language and Communication Services Through Technology and Partnership”
  • Lichfield DC - Revolutionising support: Same day council tax
  • North Northamptonshire Council - Transforming Temporary Accommodation: Cutting Costs While Driving Better Outcomes
  • Scottish Borders Council - Innovating by listening first and focusing on “What Matters” to change lives
  • Sherbourne Recycling with Coventry City Council, Solihull MBC, Walsall MBC, Rugby BC, North Warwickshire BC, Nuneaton & Bedworth BC, Warwick DC, Stratford DC - Sherbourne Recycling - Sherbourne Resource Park

Shortlist:

  • Haringey LBC - Housing Delivery Team
  • North Northamptonshire Council - Customer Experience
  • North Yorkshire Council - Health and Adult Services Team
  • Northumberland CC - Children's Social Care Leadership Team
  • Nottingham City Council - Mental Health Support Teams
  • Sandwell MBC - Smethwick & Oldbury Locality Team: Driving Sustainable Change for Children and Families
  • Shropshire Council - Shire Services
  • Swindon BC - Live Well Team
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - From Insight to Impact: How Tower Hamlets Finance Leads Transformation
  • Uttlesford DC - The Uttlesford Planning Team

Shortlist:

  • Bradford City MDC - Bradford City Centre Walking and Cycling Improvements - Transforming Cities Fund Delivery Team
  • Darlington BC - Peer mentor service
  • Bromley LBC - Regeneration Team
  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council - Homelessness Prevention Team
  • Redbridge LBC - Reach Out Domestic Abuse Service
  • Kensington & Chelsea RBC - Adult Safeguarding Team: Outstanding,Person-led protection through partnership and innovation
  • City of York Council - Health Trainer Team
  • Hull City Council - Tackling illicit tobacco - pushing the boundaries of consumer protection
  • West Lancashire BC - Housing Management Matters
  • Hackney LBC - Climate Hope in the East End

Shortlist:

  • Ealing LBC
  • Gateshead Council
  • Guildford BC & Waverley BC
  • Kings Lynn & West Norfolk BC
  • North Northamptonshire Council
  • Sandwell MBC
  • Scottish Borders Council
  • Sefton MBC

Shortlist:

  • Barnet LBC - Barnet’s Free Home Energy Fix
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Decarbonising Street Lighting – Right Light Right Place Right Time
  • Edinburgh & South East Scotland City with Capital City Partnership - Housing, Construction and Infrastructure (HCI) Skills Gateway: supporting Net Zero Construction across the Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland region.
  • Hackney LBC - Greener together: where sustainability plans become everyday change
  • Newport City Council - Net Zero Newport - A Unified Approach to Decarbonising Council Services, the Local Economy and the Community
  • Southwark LBC - Climate Programme
  • Suffolk CC with AMP Clean Energy - Battery Box energy storage programme
  • Sutton LBC - From Local Powers to Borough-Wide Net-Zero Outcomes: The Sutton Green Enterprise Partnership
  • City of London Corporation - Creating a responsible, sustainable, and competitive Square Mile

Shortlist:

  • Wigan MBC - Jacqui Hardman
  • Cumberland Council - Kate Hurr
  • Swindon BC - Ruth King
  • Surrey CC - Collette Le Van Gilroy
  • Enfield LBC - Vicky Main
  • Worcestershire CC - Lisa McNally
  • Redcar and Cleveland BC - Patrick Rice
  • North Lincolnshire Council - Rob Waltham
  • Warwickshire CC - Fay Winterburn

Shortlist:

  • Barnet LBC - Brent Cross Town
  • Bradford City MDC - Bradford City Centre Walking and Cycling Improvements Project
  • Bromley LBC - Place Shaping – Crystal Palace Park
  • Hackney LBC - Greener together: where sustainability plans become everyday change
  • Newark and Sherwood DC - Transforming Newark: Place Shaping, Partnerships and Progress
  • Northumberland CC - Northumberland Line
  • Plymouth City Council - The Regeneration of North Prospect (Plymouth) – Transforming a Neighbourhood
  • Plymouth City Council - Together we do better - Foulston Park Project Plymouth
  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council - Regenerating Stoke - Redefining our Town

Shortlist:

  • Birmingham City Council - From needs assessment to action: embedding sex worker health equity in Birmingham
  • Bradford City MDC - CAZ – improvements to air quality impact on health
  • Essex CC - Nourishing Our Future: Transforming Food Provision in Essex Early Years Settings
  • Leeds City Council - Heat in the City: Our Health in a Warming Leeds - learning and action from the 2025 Director of Public Health Report
  • Liverpool City Council - Protecting Children, Shaping Healthy Spaces: Liverpool’s Smokefree Environments Programme
  • North East Lincolnshire Council - No Pressure - It's Just a Quick Check: Tackling Undiagnosed Hypertension Through Community Collaboration in North East Lincolnshire
  • North Tyneside Council - The Community Approach to Healthy Start
  • South Cambridgeshire DC - Data with Purpose: Transforming NHS Healthy Start Access for Vulnerable Families
  • Swindon BC - Swindon Oral Health Inequalities Project
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Communities Keeping Well
  • Wolverhampton City Council - Liver Health Checks - City of Wolverhampton Council and partners

Shortlist:

  • Birmingham City Council, Coventry City Council,Wolverhampton City Council with Encore Communications - WM5G's Adult Social Care Partnership - transforming outcomes with TEC
  • Darlington BC - Benefit Entitlement Action Team (BEAT) campaign
  • Ealing LBC - CHC+ restoring trust and reducing pressure in Continuing Healthcare
  • Hackney LBC with Zest - A transformative partnership delivering the UK’s densest EV charging network
  • Lambeth LBC - Tips & Tests: Bringing HIV Prevention into Everyday Self Care
  • Newcastle City Council with YMS Health and Social Care - Adult Social CarePoint: Redesigning Access Through Public/Private Partnership
  • Plymouth City Council - Together We Do Better – Foulston Park Plymouth
  • South Kesteven DC - Lincolnshire Environmental Crime Partnership (ECP)
  • Wigan MBC with AllChild - AllChild Wigan: Collective Impact for Children, Young People, and Communities

    Shortlist:

    • Anglia Revenues Partnership - Excellence in Partnership Working
    • Barnsley MBC - Barnsley MiCard: Transforming young people’s access to public transport through partnership
    • Barnsley MBC - Health on the High Street Project
    • Hinckley & Bosworth BC - Housing & Respiratory Illness Project
    • Sheffield City Council - Sheffield Together Partnership – Driving Transformative Growth
    • Stoke-on-Trent City Council - Making Great Places
    • Test Valley BC - Andover Health Hub
    • Welwyn Hatfield BC - Bringing the Knife Angel to Welwyn Garden City

    Shortlist:

    • Greenwich RBC - Rob Allen
    • Hackney LBC - Gossica Anichebe
    • Leicester City Council - Kate Bishop
    • Oxfordshire CC - Aoife Dudley
    • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council - Lauren Etches
    • Kent CC - Whitney Gee
    • Derby City Council - Kerry Griffiths
    • Redcar and Cleveland BC - Sarah Kirkman
    • Tunbridge Wells BC - Jeremy Kimmel
    • New Forest DC - Elizabeth Mockeridge
    • Hackney LBC - Habiba Nessa

    Shortlist:

    • Bromley LBC - Encompass Therapeutic Team
    • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Decarbonising Streetlighting
    • Enfield LBC - From Flood Risk to Landscape Recovery: Enfield’s Rural Transformation Team
    • North Kesteven DC - Building Control
    • North Northamptonshire Council - Adults Health Partnerships & Housing Change Improvement & Delivery Team
    • Northumberland CC - Pre Birth -Specialist Assessment Team
    • Northumberland CC - Innovation in Action: Northumberland’s Children’s Services Project Team
    • Oxfordshire CC - Public Affairs Team
    • Telford & Wrekin Council - Customer Relationship Team